1. Gosh…my mentor, I think he must have copied the way Dr. M. J. Lear speaks! Listening to him saying things in the lab, then listening to Lear in the LT this afternoon, there are several common words they both use often: “Good!” “Happy?” “Okay?” What is going on?! And they’re both organic chemists!
2. Many Indians in [...]
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unimportant things i have just noticed
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the retrosynthetic philosophy of life
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never try to plan a many-steps synthesis from your STARTING MATERIAL, always start retro-ing from the TARGET COMPOUND. Otherwise, you will be misled to a completely different and wrong compound.
Likewise with life, don’t plan according to what you have with you now. Always look ahead to your target/vision…only that way you can reach your goal [...]